Brothers and Sisters we sent you the following statement of the Indian National Congress for its information and dissemination
Thank you for your support and understanding.
Jose Cruz
Commoner of the people of Milpa Alta.
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation

To all the Indians of Mexico and the World, A National Civil Society and International In Internazional Sezta Organizations and members of the Other Campaign Solidarity organizations in Mexico and the World

We present to share the heart of our peoples, nations, tribes and neighborhoods and as part of the National Indigenous Congress, we have agreed to publicize the speech and thought of ours, after working in the meetings held on 10, 25 and August 26, 2012, in Mexico City, this our country, Mexico, and

Considering:

- That big transnational corporations, domestic and international financial agencies and the Mexican State misrule continue their war of extermination, destruction and death to all those who struggle for life, work, peace, and a culture of respect ;

- That the Executive, Legislative and Judicial there in Mexico have joined to justify humiliation, theft, murder, imprisonment, exploitation, the spoil to the native peoples of Mexico, and against most population;

- That the policies and actions of the bad governments Federal, State and City have only managed the strengthening of organized crime and the clear weakness of an economic, social and political left in poverty by most Mexicans for the benefit of a small number of exploitative employers, and politicians who change political party as it suits their interests and that affects the whole of the working population, the self-employed, farmers, youth, women and children;

- That death, dispossession and exploitation mean big profits for the powerful and their lackeys who apply neoliberal policies of Capitalism

-That we, the indigenous people of Mexico, the poor, always ignored, we are willing to live life to show that another world is possible, much more humane than the current, for this reason we have decided to present the following:

CI pronounced AMIENTO

I.-We will continue with the construction and defense of autonomy, self-determination and full reconstitution of our territories, the protection of nature and of our sacred sites and our culture, land, water, deserts and mountains. We will keep fighting to achieve justice, democracy and peace we deserve all Mexicans;

Second.-After hearing word that points out the struggles and strengths that exist in all of Mexico against this war of extermination, twinning our struggles and we are determined to unite our hearts and hands to build peace. We support all just struggles that exist in Mexico and the world, including the following:

a) which gives the Yaqui tribe to avoid being stripped of their water from the aqueduct Novillo Dam, by the Federal Government and the State of Sonora and big business as Carlos Slim. The plunder continues despite amparo have won and have precautionary measures. We demand an immediate stop the construction of the aqueduct and punishing those who threaten the existence of the Yaqui tribe to pretend remove water;
b) The Wixárikas the brothers, who are united in Wixárika Regional Council, which brings together the peoples of Cuexcomatitlan; Teponuajuaxtlan and the Autonomous Community Bank of San Hipolito. Pro-life, the sacred places, its culture against mining companies large capital;
c) The indigenous coca Mezcala demands punishment to the paramilitary group headed by businessman Guillermo Moreno Ibarra invasive, intimidating, causes, and threatens to divide the members of this community requires respect taking community assemblies and not allow the criminalization their struggle for land and land conservation. Are required to remain free of any criminal charges Mezcala commoners brothers who have been charged unfairly by the powerful, with help from the State and Municipal governments of Jalisco, in a totally irregular judgment that takes more than one year;
d) The San Antonio Community Mazahua Pueblo Nuevo de San José del Rincón, State of Mexico, which requires the recognition and respect of its 1846 hectares of communal land that the bad governments want to strip them and transform them into ejido land intended as a step towards privatization. They also note that some members of the community came to Mexico City from 1950 to 1955, by the need to have a better life today suffer repression. Racism humiliation by the authorities of the Federal District Government and who have not complied with the agreement signed in 1997 for the reorganization of the street in which they had agreed to relocate in a square craft;
e) The People Purepecha Cheran has three basic demands at present are: Justice, Security, and the Reconstitution of terrritorio. Requires respect for their own forms of self-organization and political institutions by the Federal and State governments of Michoacan. It also requires investigation and punishment of those responsible for the disappearance, kidnapping, torture and murder of villagers brothers. It requires the dismantling of organized crime that has devastated the forest, affecting the life and liberty of the people Purepecha;
f) The People of Xochistlahuaca Amuzgo, in the State of Guerrero, continues with the practice of applying their knowledge to defend Mother Earth and their ancestral customs and the language. They are also known with its community radio, nationally and internationally, as Radio Ñomndaaa Water Word. We demand respect and no harassment of this town and its radius.
g) Del Ejido Tila Chol, in northern Chiapas, demanding respect for their land and territory are against the dispossession that they want to make 130 hectares by the Government of Chiapas, who seeks to remove through expropriation the most sacred of the people, which is the mother land. It requires that the Supreme Court resolved favorably under 259/82, which brought the days and probably 3 0 September 4 pass judgment. Tila's people are not willing to be robbed;
h) The communities of San Francisco Xochicuautla, Lerma Hutizizilapan Township, and Township Ayotuxco Huixquilucan, grouped in the Indigenous Peoples' Front in Defense of Mother Earth Mexica Otomí Region, State of Mexico, demand respect for their Autonomy and the right to their ancestral territory. Denounce rights violations, threats and intimidation that exists today because they want to steal their natural resources and territory with the construction of the highway project Naucalpan-Toluca;
i) the struggle to develop and Binnizá Ikoots peoples in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca state, against the wind company Marena Renovables who heads the dispossession of land and territory with the aim of building the wind farm called San Dionisio and Isthmian. We hold big business who heads the company Marena Renovables; Infraestrucutura Macquarie Fund, among others, the conflicts arising for wanting to enter these territories against the will of the people.
j) The villages located south and west of Mexico City, Federal District, are against the construction of the highway project called South Arc, because it threatens their lands and territories. This highway project is a byproduct of the National infrestructura which categorically reject. They denounce the threats and actions that already have the implementation of NAFTA, operated by large multinational corporations
k) The community of San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, grouped in the Coordinator of United Peoples Ocotlan Valley, oppose the mining project which is part of the concessions that the federal government has given to multinationals, in this case the Canadian company Fortuna Silver Mines and Mining Cuzcatlán, which left a balance and two companions dead and three wounded comrades opponents plunder and pollution of open projects, so far this year.
l) The Zapotec community of San Isidro Aloapam, in the Sierra de Juarez, demand freedom of commoner Alavez Pablo Lopez, a member of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca Ricardo Flores Magon and is incarcerated in the prison of Villa de Etla, Oaxaca to defend the forest and land against loggers and soldiers who live in the municipality of San Miguel Aloapam;
m) We demand the federal and state governments to respect the people and communities that are clustered around the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities Mountain and Costa Chica of Guerrero and his community policing CRAC-PC, as well as the cessation of harassment and false accusations against the authorities, elected in assemblies. All this in order to weaken the organization of our peoples; foment division between the communities to support transnational corporations, among which mining companies.

Third. - Warmly welcome the next Meeting of the National Indigenous Congress in the Northwest Region of Mexico, to be held on August 31, 1 and 2 September this year, in Baja California and summon the sisters and brothers of the peoples, nations and tribes of the region, among which are the conveners Kumeyaay, Cocopah, Yaqui and Mayo.

People call on nations, tribes and Neighborhoods to make every effort to attend this important meeting of CN I.
We also join the call that makes us brothers of the Yaqui tribe in their territory for a meeting on 12 and 13 October this year.

Fourth. Denounce the pressures weighing constantly Good Government, the support bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, by Federal, State and Municipal as well as members of political parties such as the PRI, PVEM and PRD and paramilitary organizations such as the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO).
We call on the men and women around the world to find the way to be close to the Zapatista communities to give their support in this struggle being waged against neoliberal politics that wants to see them locked in the liberated territory since recovered lands in the year 1994 .. We demand freedom for our brother Alberto Patishtán. Who spent years imprisoned unjustly.

Fifth. - Given the situation in our country of great insecurity, constant aggression, harassment, threats, disappearances, kidnappings and deaths of our brothers and sisters in all of Mexico, we have decided to declare in Permanent Session, in order to give rapid response to avoid impunity, injustice and above all be vigilant to live in peace, and tranquility within our communities.

Sixth. - We return to claim the San Andrés Accords as our Constitution to achieve autonomy. self-determination of our peoples and Integral Reconstitution of Indigenous Peoples of our country, Mexico.

Séptimo.-call on the national and international community, men and women, young, old to take your heart healthy to join in the support measures for the defense of our culture, land and territories, of our sacred places of our food and plants. of our peaceful struggle and not let us destroy neoliberal policies.

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